The impact of visual context on the content of referring expressions

ENLG 2011 - 13th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 44-52

  Viethen, Jette ^a,b   Dale, Robert ^b   Guhe, Markus ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT DETERMINATION; MAJOR FACTORS; VISUAL CONTEXT;

EID: 84859940205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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